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held in the crook of the arm, it is applied 

 between the rows. The fertilizer is thor- 

 oughly harrowed in and incorporated with 

 the soil. The supplementing of this regular 

 fertilizer with nitrate of soda is carried on 

 in several ways. One good way is to open 

 a small ditch with a man power wheel plow 



Hilling celery. 



right close to the plants and apply the mate- 

 rial by hand in this furrow, covering the 

 fertilizer again with the aid of the plow. 

 Another method is to use a fertilizer dis- 

 tributor, which applies the fertilizer each 

 side of the row. It is then necessary to cul- 

 tivate the fertilizer into the soil. 



